United States: Land of the Python
By Tom Shoop | Wednesday, February 20, 2008 | 02:20 PM
By Tom Shoop | Wednesday, February 20, 2008 | 02:20 PM
In case you haven't wrapped your mind around the whole global warming thing yet, consider this: The U.S. Geological Survey reports that new climate maps show that roughly a third of the United States could provide favorable conditions for Burmese pythons if current trends hold.
Such pythons were discovered in the Florida Everglades in 2003 -- presumably they were pets released into the wild -- and have been spreading ever since. Global warming models indicate that areas in the United States that would be "climate matches" for the snakes, which live naturally from Pakistan to Indonesia, could significantly expand by the end of this century.
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Political agendas will come and go, but the earth will continue to do whatever it is destined to do regardless of man's puny, pathetic attempts at control.
Charles Thompson | Thursday, February 21, 2008 | 12:25 PMSince most SES's I know are fat, maybe these helpless snakes would like to feed on them?
Clarence J. | Thursday, February 21, 2008 | 08:37 AMWOW! So mean climates do change, animal populations do vary, and we aren't stuck in some endless late 1960's model of weather, animal range and human cultural pattern? Whoops on that last one.
Maybe we can do something about that "tectonic-plate thingee" that's been causing all those earthquake and volcano problems as well . . . .
Barry Lewis | Thursday, February 21, 2008 | 08:25 AMOK. BUT.., can you eat them or make ethanol from them? Maybe, they could be the next health food fad. The bureaucrats in Washington are doing their best to prevent any effective legislation from becoming law. They are even trying to prevent the states from passing their own laws.
If we can't do something about the Congress, we better have Martha Stewart come up with some serving suggestions.
Robert M. | Wednesday, February 20, 2008 | 06:39 PMABOUT THIS BLOG
Government Executive Editor Tom Shoop takes a look at news and events affecting the federal bureaucracy, from the perspective of a longtime observer of government.
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